. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . 32 The legends of fairy-land are so strangelyblended with the remnants of Druidical supersti-tion* and so leavened with the strong and reverentspirit of religion which prevails among the Bretons,that it will be difficult for me to separate the purefairy tale from its accessories. But I will makethe attempt. The good old man pushed up his spectacles tillthey rested on his broad forehead, and, after amoments pause to collect his ideas, began thepromised OR, THE GOLDEN HERB, ANY years ago, when the oakswhich built the oldest ships inthe w
. The Waldorf family ; or, Grandfather's lagends . 32 The legends of fairy-land are so strangelyblended with the remnants of Druidical supersti-tion* and so leavened with the strong and reverentspirit of religion which prevails among the Bretons,that it will be difficult for me to separate the purefairy tale from its accessories. But I will makethe attempt. The good old man pushed up his spectacles tillthey rested on his broad forehead, and, after amoments pause to collect his ideas, began thepromised OR, THE GOLDEN HERB, ANY years ago, when the oakswhich built the oldest ships inthe world were yet only littleacorns, there lived, in a certainprovince in Brittany, a poorwidow, named Nina. She be-longed to a noble family, and washeiress to a handsome fortune, for herfather, at his death, left a fine man-sion-house, a large farm, a mill, anda lime-kiln, together with twelve horses,and twice as many oxen, twelve cows,and ten times as many sheep; while the quantityof flax and grain in his barns, was beyond all 34
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